Julia Hartley-Brewer is a British broadcaster and columnist[1] She presents the weekday afternoon radio show from 1pm to 4pm on LBC 97 3FM, the talk radio station[2]

She worked at the Sunday Express newspaper for 10 years until February 2011, most recently as a columnist and the Assistant Editor (Politics)[2]

Prior to that role, she was Political Editor of the Sunday Express for seven years until 2007 and previously worked on The Guardian and the London Evening Standard as both a news reporter and political correspondent She began her journalism career on the East London Advertiser in Bethnal Green[1] Hartley-Brewer is a graduate in PPE of Magdalen College, Oxford (where she was a contemporary of Louis Theroux and George Osborne) and the Centre for Journalism Studies, Cardiff

She has appeared as a panellist on the comedy quiz show Have I Got News For You seven times (most recently on 13 May 2010[3]) as well as being a regular panellist on BBC1's Question Time[1] (most recently on 2 June 2011) and Radio 4's Any Questions (most recently on 27 May 2011) She is a regular pundit and commentator on TV and radio, including Sky News, the BBC News Channel, BBC1's The One Show, ITV's Tonight show, Lorraine on ITV, Radio Five Live, and Radio 4's Today and PM programmes as well as Radio 4 comedy shows including Quote Unquote, The Now Show and, most recently, The News Quiz

Hartley-Brewer also works as an after-dinner speaker and awards ceremony host[1]

In 2006, she presented and narrated two political documentaries for BBC2/BBC4 about the history of British deputy prime ministers, called "Every Prime Minister Needs a Willie"[2], and the history of the leader of the opposition, entitled "The Worst Job in Politics"[4]

She was born in Birmingham and was educated at Oldfield Girls' Comprehensive School, in Bath, and Woodhouse Sixth Form College, in North London She is married with one daughter [edit] References